Anine Susanne Kruse Skatrud (born 1 November 1977 in

Oslo, Norway Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of i ...

) is a Norwegian musician and

choral conductor Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert. It has been defined as "the art of directing the simultaneous performance of several players or singers by the use of gesture." The primary duties ...

, the daughter of Professor of Music Gro Shetelig and the composer

Bjørn Kruse Bjørn Howard Kruse (born 14 August 1946) is a Norwegian painter and composer. He is also professor of composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. Personal life Kruse is the son of Colonel Erling O. Kruse (born 1922, died 2016) and E ...

, sister of actress and singers Jannike and Benedikte Kruse, and married to

trombonist The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

and bandleader Even Skatrud Andersen.

Career

Kruse studied music at Foss videregående skole before she attended the

Norwegian Academy of Music The Norwegian Academy of Music (Norwegian: ''Norges musikkhøgskole'', NMH) is a university-level music conservatory located in Oslo, Norway, in the neighbourhood of Majorstuen, Frogner. It is the largest music academy in Norway and offers the co ...

. Here she got her diploma as

and singer, and after ten years of studies and as lecturer at the Academy, she soon (2014) get her master's degree in Conducting. Together with her sister Benedikte Kruse,

Anja Eline Skybakmoen Anja Eline Skybakmoen (born 17 October 1984 in Trondheim, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz singer, composer and band leader, the younger sister of guitarist Jonas Skybakmoen, and married 31 July 2014, to the guitarist David Aleksander Sjølie. Ca ...

Ane Carmen Roggen Ane Carmen Stuve Roggen (born 16 September 1978) is a Norwegian singer, conductor, arranger, and journalist. She is the younger sister of jazz singer Live Maria Roggen and the twin sister of jazz singer Ida Roggen. Education Roggen attended ...

and

Ida Roggen Ida Rannveig Stuve Roggen (born 16 September 1978 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz singer, information officer, and literary scholar, and is the younger sister of jazz singer Live Maria Roggen and twin sister of Soprano Ane Carmen Roggen. ...

, Kruse comprices the vocal group

Pitsj Pitsj (founded 1999 in Oslo, Norway) is a female Norwegian a cappella quintet. The band consists of Anine and Benedikte Kruse, the twin sisters Ane Carmen and Ida Roggen, and Anja Eline Skybakmoen (who replaced Tora Augestad when she left Pit ...

. In 2011 she performed the collaborative concert Pitsj & Gumbo in Oslo Concert Hall, where "A capella møter en hot New Orleans-rett". She has also sung within Det Norske Solistkor, World Youth Choir and World Chamber Choir, and in addition conducts the choir Bærum Vocal Ensemble.

Discography

*1992: ''Wenches Jul'' (CNR) with

Wenche Myhre Wenche Synnøve Myhre (born 15 February 1947), known in some countries as Wencke Myhre, is a Norwegian singer who has had a great number of hit songs since the 1960s in the Norwegian, Danish, German and Swedish markets and languages. Early caree ...

*1996: ''Gagarin – En Romfartsopera'' (Hemera) with Håkon Berge *2006: ''

'' (

Grappa Grappa is an alcoholic beverage: a fragrant, grape-based pomace brandy of Italian origin that contains 35 to 60 percent alcohol by volume (70 to 120 US proof). Grappa is made by distilling the skins, pulp, seeds, and stems (i.e., the poma ...

) with

*2006: ''Mylder'' (Richie Rich's Salsa House, with Jan-Tore Saltnes *2009: ''

Gjenfortellinger ''Gjenfortellinger'' with Pitsj is a jazz a cappella album. It was released in 2009 on Grappa Music (GRCD 4317). Track listing # «Fanteguten» (4:07) (Trad / Arr.: Sverre Indris Joner) # «Skjøre / Fragile» (3:27) (Sting /Norsk lyrics: Kje ...

'' (Grappa) with Pitsj *2009: ''Edvard Grieg in Jazz Mood'' (Universal, 2009) with Pitsj &

Kjell Karlsen Kjell Oddvar Karlsen (29 July 1931 – 5 May 2020) was a Norwegian band leader, composer, arranger, jazz pianist and organist, and a Nestor of Norwegian music and show business, with a career spanning more than 60 years. He was the father of the ...

("I Dovregubbens hall") *2009: ''Med Andre Ord'' (DnC) with Jannike Kruse *2014: ''Snow Is Falling'' (Grappa)

References

External links

Jeg reiser alene/Ole Paus – Anine Kruse Skatrud
on YouTube * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kruse, Anine Norwegian women jazz singers Musicians from Oslo Norwegian choral conductors Norwegian Academy of Music alumni Academic staff of the Norwegian Academy of Music 1977 births Living people 20th-century Norwegian women singers 20th-century Norwegian singers 21st-century Norwegian women singers 21st-century Norwegian singers 20th-century conductors (music) 21st-century conductors (music) Pitsj members